Two New Long Valley Eagle Scouts Come From All-Female Troop

LONG VALLEY, NJ — Newly-awarded Eagle Scouts Ava Crowe and Haley Bishop were recently recognized for reaching the rank of Eagle Scout, as two members of an all-girls troop.

Crowe and Bishop of Long Valley’s BSA Troop 336, were founding members of that troop and its third and fourth Eagle Scouts, Washington Township Mayor Matt Murello said in a post on social media about the two on Aug. 19.

Their awards are history-making, as they are among some of the first young women inducted into the “Order of the Arrow,” Boy Scouts of America’s Honor Society.

For Bishop, she is one of the first to have attained both the Girl Scout’s Gold Award plus Boy Scout’s Eagle rank.

The Eagle Scout rank and Gold Award are the highest achievements within the Boy Scout and Girl Scout organizations.

The troop, according to its Facebook Group page, which was chartered on Feb. 1, 2019, is for girls from Budd Lake, Chester, Flanders, Long Valley and Mount Olive, between the ages of 11 through 17 and in grades 5 to 12.

Murello celebrated with the Eagle Scout’s families, along with the Washington Township Police Department and Assemblywoman Aura Dunn, R-25th Dist., at the Long Valley Presbyterian Church.

Crowe and Bishop each received special recognition for their accomplishments, including proclamations from Washington Township signed off by Murello, on behalf of the Office of the Mayor.

Crowe, according to her proclamation, was a Senior Patrol Leader with the troop and built and installed pollinator boxes at Long Valley’s community gardens for her Eagle project. She was given a conservation award from the Long Valley Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution for her efforts.

Bishop, who started her scouting career with the Girl Scouts in Kindergarten is “now one of the very few young women in history to have earned both her Eagle Scout rank and the Gold Award," according to her proclamation.

Her Eagle Scout project was comprised of designing and setting up Sensory Pathways by a local elementary school, which are intended to help both general education and students with special needs, “with learning, development and inclusion.”

More information about Troop 336 is available here, with membership questions directed to Kathy O’Shea at Troop336LV@gmail.com.

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